Implementing a Community-Wide Violence Prevention Plan

For most of 2017, Buncombe County's Prevention Task Force, led by Our Voice's Rape Prevention Educator Katie May and MAHEC's Health Improvement Specialist Deanna LaMotte, developed a community-wide plan to prevent intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment. As of December 2017, there is a complete, working draft of this plan with over 30 community agencies (and counting) endorsing it! This is a huge accomplishment for our community and a model for the rest of the state. (If you would like to add your logo to the plan document as an endorser of this community-wide effort, please contact leed@ourvoicenc.org)

Now that there is a full working draft, the work of implementation will begin in earnest in January 2018. Helpmate, Mountain Child Advocacy Center and Our VOICE are jointly in the process of seeking and applying for funding, but the Prevention Task Force, led by Lee Doyle of Our VOICE, will be starting in January with those activities that can be initiated without additional funding.

Click on the "Prevention Plan" link to the right to see an overview of the plan and to link to the entire document.